Behavioural Processes

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Chronic high-dose testosterone impairs economic decision making, but has no effect on memory in male rats	58
Not just for males: Flehmen as a tool for detection of reproductive status and individual recognition across sexes in four African equid species	45
Acute caffeine enhances sign-tracking in male Sprague-Dawley rats	31
Daily running trials increase sprint speed in endangered lizards (Gallotia simonyi)	31
Irrational behavior in dogs (Canis lupus familiaris): A violation of independence from irrelevant alternatives	27
ABA, AAB and ABC renewal with Pavlovian Conditioning of Tentacle Lowering procedure in the snail Cornu aspersum	23
Unpredictable mealtimes rather than social jetlag affects acquisition and retention of hippocampal dependent memory	21
Aroma-dillo or Area-dillo? An examination of armadillos’ sensory modality bias	20
Behavioral responses to predator and heterospecific alarm calls are habitat-specific in Eurasian tree sparrows	19
1-Back reinforcement matching and mismatching by pigeons: Implicit or explicit learning?	19
Behavioural changes of native freshwater prawn in the presence of a predator fish	17
Light, camera, action: Behavioral responses of the yellow scorpion Tityus serrulatus to different lights	17
A Pavlovian, conditioned-reinforcement approach to reducing impulsive choice	16
Three methods of behavioural testing to measure anxiety – A review	15
Learning about reward identities and time	15
Evaluation of temperament traits and its association with visual lateralisation in oval squid (Sepioteuthis lessoniana)	14
An evaluation of hedonic responses in taste-potentiated odor aversion using the analysis of licking microstructure and orofacial reactivity	14
Social dynamics and behavior of zoo-housed red-footed tortoises at different housing densities	14
Modeling resurgence with an evolutionary theory of behavior dynamics	14
Pigeon leadership hierarchies are not dependent on environmental contexts or individual phenotypes	14
Activity vs exploration: Locomotion in a known and unknown environment differs in Atlantic cod juveniles (Gadus morhua)	13
Responses to environmental enrichment are associated with personality characteristics in chestnut-bellied seed finches (Sporophila angolensis)	13
Prepulse inhibition deficits in inbred and outbred rats and between-strain differences in startle habituation do not depend on startle reactivity levels	13
Time, uncertainty, and suboptimal choice	12
Influence of web traits, height, and daily periods of exposition on prey captured by orb-weaver spiders	12

A test of the role of stimulus-response and stimulus-outcome associations in the effects of intermittent-access training	12
Verbal segments and multiple-pair training in relational responding under a transposition paradigm in children	12
Does predation environment affect repeated responses to predation cues in the fish Brachyrhaphis rhabdophora?	11
Housing-dependent variation in goal-tracking behavior predicts use of a spatial strategy in a dual-solution Morris water maze task	11
Non-invasive, real-time stress measurement: Vocalization compared with thermal imaging in kittens of the domestic cat in response to social separation	10
Environmental conditions shape learning in larval zebrafish	10
May unpredictable events affect monkey welfare under human care?	10
SQAB 2021: Translational research using computation approaches	10
Individual differences in degree of discounting: Do different procedures and measures assess the same construct?	10
Interference of same/different learning by a spatial discrimination	10
Effects of individual or common resources availability in choosing individual or shared contingencies	10
Training primates to forage in virtual 3D environments	10
Fins of Fury or Fainéant: Fluoxetine impacts the aggressive behavior of fighting fish (Betta splendens)	9
Choice reaction time in pigeons fails to increase as predicted by Hick’s law	9
Contextualising courtship: Exploring male body odour effects on vocal modulation	9
Effects of inter-trial interval on sign-tracking and conditioned reinforcer efficacy in female rats	9
Experimental analysis of choice behavior in Japanese eel (Anguilla japonica)	9
Effects of probabilistic win-paired-cues on loss trials on risky choice in rats	9
Extrinsic traits consistently drive microhabitat decisions of an arboreal snake, independently of sex and personality	9
Female Java sparrows prefer high exploratory males without assortative mating	9
Environmental enrichment accelerates the acquisition of schedule-induced drinking in rats	9
No evidence of the choice overload effect in a computerized paradigm with rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) and capuchin monkeys (Sapajus apella)	9
Characteristics influencing local enhancement in free-living striped mice	8
Ejaculation latency determines susceptibility to stress in the male rat	8
A preliminary evaluation of habituation and dishabituation of operant responding in mice	8
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Altruism, reciprocity, and probability: Examining relations through a discounting framework	8
Comparison of ultrasonic isolation calls of pure-breeding and interspecies hybrid Phodopus dwarf hamster pups	8
Effects of external cues and group mate body size on the collective behavior of shoaling crucian carp	8
Trained dogs do not give up: Effects of advanced training on the persistence of domestic dogs	8
Some properties of habituation of siphon withdrawal in the slimy clam (Ruditapes decussatus)	8
Consummatory successive positive contrast with aversive solutions in infant rats: Replication and generalization to a higher concentration of a bitter solution	8
Topographical aspects of brief-stimulus presentations: A re-examination of the problem of conditioned reinforcement	8
Covariation among behavioral traits and hatching time in zebrafish	8
Motivational state-dependent renewal and reinstatement of operant responding under food and water deprivation states	7
Examining resurgence and repetition with the evolutionary theory of behavior dynamics	7
Trap versus net: Behavioural sampling bias caused by capture method in three-spined sticklebacks	7
Resurgence increases with repetition	7
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Extra-experimental scarcity impacts hypothetical operant demand: A natural SARS-CoV-2 eperiment	7
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Domestication and social environment modulate fear responses in young chickens	7
Ontogeny of pup isolation-induced ultrasonic calls in a highly social rodent, the Harting’s vole (Microtus hartingi)	7
Effects of domestication on neophobia: A comparison between the domesticated Bengalese finch (Lonchura striata var. domestica) and its wild ancestor, the white-rumped munia (Lonchura striata)	7
Stag beetle Cyclommatus mniszechi employs both mutual- and self-assessment strategies in male-male combat	7
Autoshaped impulsivity: Some explorations with a neural network model	7
Female aggression towards same-sex rivals depends on context in a tropical songbird	7
Choices about whether to wait: Changes in delay discounting without changes in time perception	7
Persistent fine-tuning of egg rejection based on parasitic timing in a cuckoo host even after relaxation of parasitism pressure	7
A computational perspective on rapid reacquisition: Phenotype-specific effects of reinforcement history	7

Effects of pre-session feeding, an abolishing operation, on resurgence in rats	7
Applying an eye tracking technique to gibbons: First study using scanpath measurements for visual stimuli	7
Generalizability of time-based interventions: Effects of choice procedure and smaller-sooner delay	7
Instructional control in choice tasks: The relation between type of schedule and relative expected values	7
Nearest neighbour distance does not affect escape behaviour in urban hooded crows	7
Alcohol exposure and environmental enrichment effects on contextual fear conditioning in zebrafish	6
Never smile at a crocodile: Gaping behaviour in the Nile crocodile at Ndumo Game Reserve, South Africa	6
Matching is acquired faster than mismatching by pigeons when salient stimuli are presented manually	6
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Black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus) discriminate between naturally-ordered and scramble-ordered chick-a-dee calls and individual preference is related to rate of learning	6
Effects of housing density on anxiety-like behavior of zebrafish in the plus maze with ramp	6
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Chicks make stochastic decisions based on gain rates of different time constants	6
Attention bias and novel object test in rams (Ovis aries) under intensive farming	6
Sex-based differences, diurnal and seasonal trends in thermoregulatory behaviour of nesting Painted Stork (Mycteria leucocephala)	6
Reproductive consequences of material use in avian nest construction	6
Observation of female-male mounting in the carrion crow	6
Effort-motivated behavior resolves paradoxes in appetitive conditioning	6
Coup in the coop: Rank changes in chicken dominance hierarchies over maturation	6
Maternal deprivation effect on morphine-induced CPP is related to changes in opioid receptors in selected rat brain regions (hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, and nucleus accumbens)	6
Abbreviated fixed-interval interventions promote self-control in rats	6
Exploring innovative problem-solving in African lions (Panthera leo) and snow leopards (Panthera uncia)	5
Individual vocal identity may be obscured following colony assembly in captive black-capped chickadees	5
Removing the opportunity to respond induces resurgence	5
Patrolling the area, not ousting intruders, relates to reproductive success for territorial male Leon Springs pupfish, Cyprinodon bovinus	5
Primacy and recency effects in hierarchical renewal in rats	5
Degrading stimuli by reducing image resolution impairs performance in a rodent continuous performance test	5
Resurgence of target behavior after negative punishment of alternative behavior	5
Analixity: An open source, low-cost analysis system for the elevated plus maze test, based on computer vision techniques	5
Measuring behavioral coping style and stress reactivity experimentally in wild olive baboons	5
Effects of water restriction and dirt on grooming behavior in neotropical rodents (Trinomys setosus and T. yonenagae) (Echimyidae)	5
Ecology of acoustic partitioning in insect assemblages	5
Can a traditional partner preference test quantify monogamous behavior in captive coyotes?	5
Threespine stickleback do not use social cues to learn about predation risk	5
Blackouts can serve as a contextual feature and enhance resurgence	5
Invasive social wasp learning abilities when foraging in human modified environments	5
Investigating individual learning behaviour of dogs during a yes/no detection task	5
Prevention of self-grooming in rats: Evidence for a rebound effect	5
Overmatching under food uncertainty in foraging pigeons	5
Anxiety in Brazilian dogs: Typical behaviors, anxiety-inducing situations, and sociodemographic factors	5
Non-individualistic ultrasonic and audible isolation calls throughout ontogeny in a rodent, Eolagurus luteus	5
Domestication effects on aggressiveness: Comparison of biting motivation and bite force between wild and domesticated finches	5
Gain-loss asymmetry in delay and effort discounting of different amounts	5
Investigating the role of environmental enrichment initiated in adolescence against the detrimental effects of chronic unpredictable stress in adulthood: Sex-specific differences in behavioral and neu	5
Evaluating effects of context changes on resurgence in humans	5
Familiarity, personality, and foraging performance in three-spined sticklebacks	4
No evidence for mate copying in Danio rerio	4
Behavioural changes in aposematic Heliconius melpomene butterflies in response to their predatory bird calls	4
The temporal copulatory patterns of female rat sexual behavior	4
The effects of olfactory stimulation on the behaviour of captive slender lorises (Loris lydekkerianus)	4
White Leghorn and Red Junglefowl female chicks use distal and local cues similarly, but differ in persistency behaviors, during a spatial orientation task	4
Evidence of AAB, ABA, and ABC renewal procedures for instrumental response in elementary school children	4
Auditory pattern discrimination in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus)	4
The acoustic behavior of the Brazilian caatinga big rodent is incongruent to its actual position in Hydrochoerinae	4
Soft calls do not modulate aggressiveness in male common cuckoos toward conspecific territorial intruders: A sequential playback study	4
Recently encountered delay lengths produce contrast effects on delay discounting	4
Deciding what to do: Observations from a psycho-motor laboratory, including the discovery of pre-crastination	4
The investigation of sexual and interspecies disparities in spatial learning and memory across two rodent species	4
Adaptive forgetting of place/object memory for dung in the domestic horse (Equus ferus caballus): Memory for a day	4
Number-of-responses matching in pigeons (Columba livia): Choice biases following delay and no-sample tests	4
Size matters: Antagonistic effects of body size on courtship and digging in a wolf spider with non-traditional sex roles	4
Equivalent learning, but unequal participation: Male bumble bees learn comparably to females, but participate in cognitive assessments at lower rates	4
Aerial urination in Amazon river dolphins: reassessing its social significance and implications for sensory biology	4
Behavioural response of female Lewis rats toward 31-kHz ultrasonic calls	4
Learning to stop responding	4
Which form of environmental enrichment is most effective in rodent models of autism?	4
Acoustic traits of male ultrasonic courtship song in a rodent with induced ovulation, the Harting’s vole (Microtus hartingi)	4
Female dogs evaluate levels of competence in humans	4
Bottlenose dolphin communication during a role-specialized group foraging task	4
Bringing the past into the present: Control by exteroceptive stimuli and key-peck location in a concurrent-chains procedure	4
Foraging behaviour of Pheidole latinoda: An impetus for employing a heuristic approach to address optimization challenges	4
Reducing impulsive choice: VIII. Effects of delay-exposure training in female rats	4
Measurement of the exploration–exploitation response of dogs through a concurrent visual discrimination task	4
Oral antibiotics reduce voluntary exercise behavior in athletic mice	4
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Sex differences in the expression of aggressive behavior and influences on social choice in zebrafish (Danio rerio)	3
Previous experience alters individual vulnerability to angling of crucian carp (Carassius auratus)	3
Boldness and learning in an active foraging lizard	3
The effectiveness of Go/Nogo dual-task is modulated by SOA and Go/Nogo ratio	3
The role of stimulus combinations in the repeated assessment of resurgence	3

Structural consistency of exploratory behaviour of sub-adult and adult spiny mice (Acomys cahirinus) in seven different tests	3
The consistency of exploration behaviours across life stages in a native Australian rodent, the fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat Melomys cervinipes	3
Streamlining boldness measurement in fish: A practical approach to field studies	3
Using social network analysis to confirm the ‘gambit of the group’ hypothesis for a small cetacean	3
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Decrease in the rewarding value of spatial novelty due to the contamination of the stimulus field with light – Evidence from a free exploration test involving rats	3
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Individual and group behavioral responses to nutritional state and context in a social fish	3
Search image formation for spider prey in a mud dauber wasp.	3
Prosociality and reciprocity according to parental status, communication, and personality in domestic canaries (Serinus canaria)	3
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Playing or fighting? Home cage dynamics in crowding or social instability paradigms contribute to stress and reproductive impairments in adult female Wistar rats	3
Cost does not prevent pigeons from investing in the future	3
Almost there: Learning to navigate approximately with a grid map	3
Inhibition of alloparental behavior by acute stress in virgin male California mice (Peromyscus californicus)	3
3D-printed operant chambers for rats: Design, assembly, and innovations	3
Reproductive advantage of the winners of male-male competition in Drosophila prolongata	3
Examination of the joint Simon effect in rats: Changes in task performance based on actions of the partner	3
Individual variation in activity budgets of a stable population of killer whales in managed care across a year	3
Acute noise is harmful on the anti-predator behaviour of commercially important juvenile coral reef fishes	3
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Stress-related impairment of fear memory acquisition and disruption of risk assessment behavior in female but not in male mice	3
Resource limitations: A taxonomy	3
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Relational abilities index: A experimental study of the procedure at different trial durations	3
A standardised ethogram for the Psittaciformes	3
Corrigendum to “Evaluating indicators of intentionality, flexibility, and goal-association in domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus) facial signals” [Behav. Proc. 231, September 2025, 105244]	3
Activity behavior of goitered gazelles in an arid environment	3
Assessment of Ultrasonic Vocalization-Mediated Communication Deficits in AD Rats: A Social Learning Paradigm Using Conspecific Drinking Behavior	3
Effects of delay sequence in a delay discounting task	3
Uncertainty in foraging success and its consequences on fitness	3
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An introduction to “discrete choice experiments” for behavior analysts	3
A mixed-species shoal including fewer heterospecifics is preferred by jack mackerel Trachurus japonicus juveniles	3
Regulation of sex differences in risk-based decision making by gonadal hormones: Insights from rodent models	3
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Territorial defense is ineffective at protecting eggs from predation in the endangered Leon Springs pupfish (Cyprinodon bovinus)	3
Motivating operations as contexts for operant discrimination training and testing	3
Emergent relations and competing behavior: Effects on interruptions, accuracy and reaction time	3
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Evaluating indicators of intentionality, flexibility, and goal-association in domestic cat (Felis silvestris catus) facial signals	3
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Hot crabs with bold choices: Temperature has little impact on behavioural repeatability in Caribbean hermit crabs	3
Behavioural responses to separation from human companion in the domestic cat: A survey-based study	3
Rats can spontaneously discriminate different rhythms: An investigation using an automated habituation-dishabituation paradigm	3
SQAB 2022: New directions in learning research	3
Horses can learn to identify joy and sadness against other basic emotions from human facial expressions	3
Sexual stimulation of captive Iberian ibex bucks (Capra pyrenaica): Effect of male social rank on the response to estrous females	3
An investigation of turn alternation in two species of terrestrial isopods: Porcellio spinicornis and Trachelipus rathkii	3
The effect of adulteration with a bitter tastant, denatonium benzoate, on the reinforcing value of sucrose	2
Non-masking noise suppresses bird song	2
Increased vigilance to neighbor duets broadcast from unexpected territorial boundaries in rufous horneros	2
Behavioral economic demand modeling chronology, complexities, and considerations: Much ado about zeros	2
Female preference counteracts negative frequency dependent selection for a stable polymorphism in a livebearing fish	2
Predation risk in two Patagonian Liolaemus lizards: Similar escape behaviour in different environmental contexts	2
Modeling relational responding with artificial neural networks	2
Further observations on the reinforcing value of sucrose solutions: Interaction between quantity and concentration	2
Locomotor play behavior evolves by random genetic drift but not as a correlated response to selective breeding for high voluntary wheel-running behavior	2
Behavioural reactivity testing in sheep indicates the presence of multiple temperament traits	2
Captive Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna) show facial indicators of positive affect when reunited with their caregiver	2
Behavioral evidence that repetitive responses in a free-movement pattern Y-maze are associated with ageing-related deficit in working memory	2
Measuring locomotor strategies of freely moving previsual rat pups	2
A single brief stressful event time-dependently affects object recognition memory and promotes familiarity preference in marmoset monkeys	2
Consistency of cognitive performance in spatial navigation and its link to activity and boldness in laboratory rats	2
The emergence and early development of socio-sexual behavior in beluga calves (Delphinapterus leucas)	2
Social attributes shape antipredator behavior strategies in the ruddy ground-dove	2
Thin-fingered fiddler crabs display a natural preference for UV light cues but show no sensory bias to other hypertrophied claw coloration	2
Modulation of dear enemy effects by male dusky warblers (Phylloscopus fuscatus) at different reproductive stages	2
ABA and AAB renewal of alcohol seeking in rats are reduced by exposure to beer before extinction	2
Kea (Nestor notabilis) and the ephemeral reward task: Success and hurdles explored	2
Bonding against the odds: Male prairie vole response to the “widow effect” among females	2
Repeated reversals of concurrent olfactory discriminations in rats: A search for functional equivalence	2
Time buffers teasing and lessens tobacco use: The moderating role of time perspective on bullying victimization and tobacco use in adolescents	2
Noise-induced vocal shifts in the Himalayan Monal (Lophophorus impejanus) vocal distribution in two different habitats	2
Interspecific differences in sociability, social novelty preference, anxiety- and depression-like behaviors between Brandt's voles and C57BL/6J mice	2
The importance of color and body size for reproductive decision making by males and females of the giant river prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii (de Man, 1879) (Decapoda, Caridea, Palaemonidae)	2
Rhesus monkeys show greater habituation to repeated computer-generated images than do orangutans	2
Same-sex love triangles in female monkeys: Intra-sexual mate competition between female Japanese macaques for female sexual partners	2
More complex anti-predator behaviors develop with age in Chinese water deer fawns	2
Disentangling the “many-eyes”, “dilution effect”, “selfish herd”, and “distracted prey” hypotheses in shaping alert and flight initiation distance in a colonial seabird	2
Qualitative variations in delay discounting: A brief review and future directions	2
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When a glimpse is enough: Partial mimicry of jumping spiders by insects	2
Ambient light spectrum affects larval Mexican jumping bean moth (Cydia saltitans) behavior despite light obstruction from host seed	2
Learning and laterality in wild-caught Namaqua rock mice (Micaelamys namaquensis)	2
The role of line-of-sight in operant experiments using food reinforcers in guinea pigs	2
Response timing of budgerigars in a turn-taking task under operant conditioning	2
Innate visual discrimination abilities of zebrafish larvae	2
Development of an apparatus for evaluating the visual and olfactory discrimination ability of cattle under controlled target visibility	2
Runway extinction in terrestrial toads (Rhinella arenarum): Instrumental or Pavlovian?	2
First insights into social behavioral patterns between pairs of bait-attracted mature female tiger sharks from Fuvahmulah Island, Maldives	2
Social group during housing and testing modulates the effect of ethanol on zebrafish (Danio rerio) behavior	2
Evaluation of the capability of oil specific discrimination in detection dogs	2
The effect of interstimulus interval on sustained attention	2